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A pensioner with multiple sclerosis jailed for collecting information for dissident republicans may have suffered a deterioration in her condition due to the stress of the case, the Court of Appeal heard today.
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Act replaces criminal and civil investigations and inquests with inquiries carried out by new investigative body
RICHARD has insisted that I write a little bit about the death of Frank Kitson. Kitson, British Army general and leading advocate of counter-insurgency operations and collusion between state forces and death squads, died last week. I have written about him many times. I am sure his death will be mourned by those within the British system whom he served over many decades in defence of the Empire. He was rewarded with medals, a knighthood and military promotions. He was for a time Commander-in-Chief of UK Land Forces and from 1982 to 1985 he was Aide-de-Camp General to the British Queen.
“There is not only a moral case for a cease-fire but also a strategic one, born of insights from the psychology of trauma.”
Just before Christmas my colleague Greg O'Loughlin, the Executive Director of Friends of Sinn Féin in the USA , gave me the sad news that veteran A...